Was it a cosmic jellyfish, a fleeting light trick, or something more outlandish? When NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took a huge red sprite arcing over a North American storm from the International ...

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream ...

With more than a decade of productive partnership in advancing high-power laser technology, Lawrence Livermore National ...

Providing capabilities found nowhere else in the world as it probes the physics behind magnetic reconnection, the Facility ...

The multimillion-dollar experiment that was years in the making comes as the federal government makes broad cuts to science ...

Scientists have proposed two experimental spacecraft that could reach one of the farthest known objects in the solar system ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source. Unlike nuclear fission—the type ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have unveiled a pioneering method for capturing the full structure of ultra-intense ...

As the name suggests, plasma physics concerns the physical properties of plasmas. With increasing temperature, all materials are transformed successively from the solid, to liquid and then gaseous ...

Available to watch now, IOP Publishing’s journal, Plasma Science and Technologies explores the knowns and unknowns of negative triangularity and evaluate its future as a power plant solution The ...